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How To Secure Your Linux Server in 2024 with Best Practices

Protecting your web server is crucial for the security of your website and sensitive information. Linux servers are a popular choice among developers and businesses. Ninety-six percent of the top 1,000,000 web servers are Linux-based. ...
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Guide To Installing & Securing MariaDB on Ubuntu 24.04

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Linux IPv6 HOWTO (en)

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Here, Peter Bieringer at The Linux Documentation Project goes over keeping remote access desktops secure with IPv6. Constantly updated, this is a great resource to keep in your bookmarks, as it is one of the most comprehensive HOWTO's you can find. Highly recommended for anyone looking to understand the in-depth world of IP.

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Secure Boot CDs for VPN HOWTO

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Jeffery Douglas Waddell, from the Linux Documentation Project provides us with a comprehensive look at securing your booting stage with VPN capabilities. As he states in the beginning: For several years now, users at the Institution where I currently work part-time have expressed a need for a robust and secure connection to the internal network. The internal network actually has some clients that are on private networks and some clients that are Internet-routeable. Read on for the connecting quickly and securely.

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Apache 2 with SSL/TLS

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This article begins a series of three articles dedicated to configuring Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support in order to ensure maximum security and optimal performance of the SSL communication. This article, part one, introduces key aspects of SSL/TLS an

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APACHE

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The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.

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Apache Security Tips

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Some hints and tips on security issues in setting up a web server. Some of the suggestions will be general, others specific to Apache.

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Improving Apache

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This documentation will discuss the certain configuration steps that are needed to ensure the Web server's security.

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Securing a PHP Installation

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This documentation will discuss security issues relating to PHP. PHP can be a very powerful and, overall, secure language. That doesn't mean you can just throw caution to the wind.

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Apache Security

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Here's a pretty well-written introduction to utilizing the access control mechanisms built into Apache. This includes the Apache security modules, controlling access by IP and username, using htaccess/htpasswd, among others.

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Securing-Domain HOWTO

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Outlines the things you will probably have to do when you want to setup a network of computers under your own domain. Covers configuration of network parameters, network services, and security settings.

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